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SMS-messages - context for traditional and modern proverbs

2014

The article focuses on SMS-messages as short letters in a Finnish daily newspaper, Salon Seudun Sanomat. A proverb is often included in the SMS-message. The analysis is based on Charles Briggs’s (1988) research on a proverb’s performances. Proverbs in a spoken language are in many ways similar to proverbs in the colloquial written form; presentational features are the same. The research is also based on Lev Vygotski’s (1967) claim that a language is linked to a thought, and on Gottlob Frege’s (2000) principle of context. Thirdly, an utterance should follow Paul Grice’s (1975) cooperative principles of quantity, quality, relation, and manner. In what follows the meaning of the proverbs will …

Många krokar i långdansen : en diger samling av finlandssvenska ordspråk och talesätt

2018

SMS Messages in a Daily Finnish Newspaper : The Contect of Proverb Performances

2016

The article focuses on Finnish proverbs as a part of contemporary colloquial written language in everyday use and context. The article offers a view on what is happening with proverbs in the vernacular in Finnish everyday life. Most traditional Finnish proverbs originate from an agrarian context and still use agrarian language, even if nowadays they live in a new context with a new meaning. As empirical material this article uses a special case that demonstrates the use of proverbs in one Finnish newspaper: proverbs in SMS messages published as a letter to the editor in a newspaper. peerReviewed